Saturday, May 29, 2010

Over to the nearest town today to get a copy of something which featured in the latest FACE newsletter.

It's a game made by Orchard Toys, who produce brightly coloured board games which my children have really enjoyed playing.This particular game was created by a group of Primary school students from Norfolk, in association with the company.

The game has a series of (geographical) aims relating to the production of local foods.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Thanks to my colleague Paula Owens for telling me about this World Cup charity record.

What is striking about this is the emphasis on the multicultural nature of the country, something that was picked up on Radio 4 earlier today when Michael Caine was interviewed.

The occasion was the opening of a new exhibition in the Museum of London, which featured Michael as an 'iconic Londoner' and he described the importance of everyone living in the city seeing themselves as "a Londoner", rather than choosing a label which identified them as being somehow separate from the community...

Could you see yourself using this video in the classroom, and if so how ?

What additional materials might be needed to turn this into a curriculum resource...

What is this blog about ?

Cultural Geography featured on the now-ex Pilot GCSE Geography Specification - that was my introduction to this area of geography. This blog started out featuring my findings, resources and images as I produced resources when teaching this unit for the first time. Some readers may disagree with what I call 'cultural geography' but I'm still relatively new to all this...

Some of the early content stems from ideas by Dr. Phil Wood , Senior Lecturer in Geographical Education at the University of Leicester.

The blog has now morphed into a general place to blog about geography and popular culture, as well as social science, mapping and a range of other cultural items of interest.